An Analytic Method to Determine the Bending Moment of Cantilever Plate

This paper gives an analytic method to determine the bending moment at the root of the gear teeth which may be looked upon as a cantilever plate with finite length acted by a concentrated load at arbitrary point of the plate face. The analytic method consists of the superposition of six cases ofplate-bending results which is more accurate than the traditional method-themoment-image method.